Starting to get a bit lost in some of the unevenness of the stories in the first book of the Dirty Havana Trilogy, so have slowed down reading. Then Zona came though the post today, - as it says on the cover "a Book about a Film about a Journey to a Room" - it's a book about Tarkovsky's Stalker, one of my favourite incomprehensible films. So I started reading that - the first few pages anyway. I hope it gets a lot fucking better than the start, which is mildly interesting, a bit laboured. But the man thinks that if he hadn't seen Stalker his responsiveness to the world would have been "radically diminished". It pisses me off that he has said that, firstly because I agree, and secondly if this guy turns out to be a right little tosser who's written a crap book about one of my top films, I will , in some sense, feel radically diminished myself in some unexplained way. And if you think that is unclear, then you had better watch the Stalker.
So. I'm actually writing this waiting for a poker tournament to start - there seems no point to stopping until it does start as what would I do? I don't like to read things while I'm keeping an eye on something else. Writing is ok. It's like the mental equivalent of lifting your eyes from the screen to look out the window to rest them, watching out for the names that should soon appear in the tournament roster. I have to keep an eye on them because I look up their status, and make a decision whether these players are crap (fish in poker terminology), or good, or there isn't enough information to decided. You can look up every poker players online results for all their poker playing career, unless they have actively written to a site to block their stats being shown. Which some do. I don't - I'm quite proud of my ROI (Return on Interest) - at least it's positive - yes I win money at poker! But not very much. A few hundred quid every six months (total profit that is).
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